Sleeping with Ghosts

"Beautifully crafted and luminous, these poems take the reader on an intimate and unforgettable journey of love found and lost, the joys of creativity, and the power of memory." - Judith Liebmann, Ph.D., Branford Poet Laureate

"The collection is liminal, linking opposites: definite and indefinite, reality and fantasy, timeless and time-specific, and indescribable and descriptive." - Mari Carlson, US Review of Books

"Jen's latest collection of writings is a poignant meditation on a life of love confronted." - Mary O'Connor, author, Say Yes! to Your Creative Self

"As you might infer from the title, this poet is gifted with a sense of irony, catalogues the ghosts of relationships which visit her still with hard-earned honesty bereft of self-pity, wonderful imagery and, somehow, a lightness of touch....We find ourselves not just admiring but also delighting in her as she moves through good times and hard with a poet's kind of vision and language and a perspective equal parts wise and whimsical." - Nancy Fitz-Hugh Meneely, author, Letter from Italy, 1944

"If you're ready to take a thoughtful, heartfelt stroll through memory and meaning, Sleeping with Ghosts is absolutely worth your time. Jen's gentle but honest voice will stay with you long after the last page is turned." - Kaecey McCormick, 2023 Connecticut Poetry Award Winner